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Are Republicans backing away from Obamacare repeal?

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With Obamacare more unpopular than ever and midterm elections on the horizon, you’d think the GOP would be eager to push a “repeal & replace” health care agenda. But Red State’s Erick Erickson notes that many of the most influential Republicans in Washington seem to be backing away from plans for repeal:

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former economic advisor to John McCain and who opposed passage of Obamacare, has started a think tank premised on keeping, but fixing, Obamacare. Holtz-Eakin has the ear of Republican leaders. In 2009, Mitch McConnell appointed him to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

The Chamber of Commerce is declaring it will work to fix, not repeal, Obamacare. In fact, just last week the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said, “The administration is obviously committed to keeping the law in place, so the chamber has been working pragmatically to fix those parts of Obamacare that can be fixed.”

Concurrent to this, the Chamber of Commerce has begun funding candidates to beat conservatives in Republican primaries.